SEO Analyst

We're looking to hire and develop our next SEO specialist. Some experience is necessary for this position but we recognize that the skills needed to be successful in this position can be taught to the right candidate. Are you that person?

A natural problem-solver with a deep understanding of the Internet. You have an innate sense of intellectual curiosity that drives your need to be constantly learning and taking on new challenges.

A self starter; someone who doesn’t require handholding. We're looking for someone who is able to assess a situation, develop a plan, get approval and run with it.

You have strong communication skills. You will have to interact with the different departments both within ACS, with the client company as well as with independent contractors. Are you able to communicate strategies and their success to a variety of different audiences and skill sets?

Motivated to improve: The ideal candidate will have a passion to continue to research ways to improve their knowledge base and grow as technology changes. When approached with a challenge, are you driven to find a solution until you've solved it? That's the person want want to join our team.

What is the job all about?

The SEO Specialist will interact with members of sales, marketing, web developers, external clients and independent contractors to apply industry standard and ethical SEO techniques, including but not limited to, keyword analysis, competitive analysis, optimization of content, optimization of meta tags, link building and site submission. Additionally, he/she will leverage social media to communicate with our client base, build trust, and foster a community.

Keyword Analysis and Research: In-depth knowledge of keyword research. This includes knowing how to identify the least inexpensive, yet most profitable keywords for client sites – whether they are running a pay per click (PPC) campaign, or want to improve their organic search results.

SEO Copywriting: Understanding and SEO writing guidelines, eg, where to place keywords in copy so that it gets the most SE traffic, how to write effective headlines and how to write effective call-to-action statements. SEO specialists are also responsible for creating (or overseeing the creation) of original SEO content for client sites.

Presenting new ideas: Present marketing strategies and SEO techniques to web developers, sales members and project managers that will increase organic traffic and improving a client’s SERP rankings.

Social Media posting, monitoring and managing: Create and maintain social media for ACS as well as select clients using Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, Wikipedia and other social media resources.

Candidate experience will directly determine salary:

You may not be familiar with all these concepts. The more you know, the faster we can train you. Some talents can't be taught. We'll train the right candidate with the expectation that he/she will continue to increase they're skills on their own and continue to add value to the ACS team and themselves.

Proven track record of growing organic traffic. Ability to show top rankings gained or maintained for competitive keywords and/or demonstrate how candidate significantly increased SEO traffic to a corporate site.

Proficient with SEO reporting and analytical tools, including Google Analytics.

Experience with link building campaigns and brainstorming creative ways for link acquisition.

Website architecture and development experience including HTML/CSS and content management systems a plus.

Knowledge of all basic SEO factors that influence results including but not limited to:

Link building

Keyword research

On page and title tag optimization

Localized keyword optimization strategies

ACS, inc., a website design and web application company in Liverpool, NY, is looking for an SEO specialist to join our team. We’re going on our 13th year and with over 100 clients we are growing quickly. This is a full time, on location, entry level position with room for advancement. Benefit package available.

We always turn to ACS when we have an idea to develop, whether it is a website, a lead generation tool or an interactive media project. We are always confident that ACS can not only get the job done, but on time and on budget as well.

Wow is the word we used just a week after the implementation of our intranet. We were able to take on 3 times the amount of work load, reduce the lack of communication and more closely monitor the activity of our production through the reporting.

Sara Johnson Organizational Development Manager G&C Food Distributors

We have been working with ACS for over 6 years and during that time ACS has brought our website and Intranet to a new level of technology on an affordable budget. We strongly recommend ACS to deliver the results you are looking for.